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( Living / The Dialogue )
Beer-Sheva, Israel. A new pre-publication study reveals that women in the United States generally derive more happiness from religious participation than from shopping on Sundays. Additionally, the repeal of "blue laws," which allow store
09-09-10
Word count: 134
( SciMed / Genetics & Genome )
Leicester, England. Sir Alec Jeffreys, whose work led to the development of genetic fingerprinting, is the senior author of an important new paper on the genetic basis of human diversity.
The Jeffreys team has now defined the engine for change in
09-08-10
Word count: 132
( SciMed / Healthcare )
Chevy Chase, MD, USA. The Endocrine Society has released a new clinical practice guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). The guideline features a series of evidence-based clinical recommendations developed
09-08-10
Word count: 143
( Nation / Workplace )
Los Angeles, CA, USA. The recession has been taking its toll on national, state and local unionization rates, says the UCLA annual report on organized labor. Following an uptick last year, unionization rates fell between July 1, 2009, and June 30,
09-08-10
Word count: 191
( Nation / Politics )
East Lansing, MI, USA. There is something beyond plain old ignorance that motivates many Americans to believe President Obama is a Muslim and John McCain is senile, according to a study of smear campaigns.
A Pew Research Center poll conducted in A
09-07-10
Word count: 141
( Living / The Dialogue )
Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Americans are united when it comes to many core values, according to a survey, but the nation is deeply divided about certain issues. Gay marriage, immigration, and universal healthcare lead the list. Those are the some of the f
09-07-10
Word count: 148
( Living / Health & Fitness )
Boston, MA, USA. Health conscious consumers who hesitate at the price of fresh blueberries and blackberries, fruits renowned for high levels of healthful antioxidants, now have an economical alternative.
Black rice is the heritage variety of a gra
09-04-10
Word count: 150
( Living / The Dialogue )
Houston, TX, USA. Interviews with 360 American leaders who are evangelical Christians finds enormous variety in how leaders engage their personal faith in workplace decision-making.
The study was the largest of its kind and included CEOs, presiden
09-01-10
Word count: 127
( Living / Relationships )
East Lansing, MI, USA. People tend to pick their spouse based on shared personality traits, which upends the popular belief that married couples do not become more similar over time. A team led by researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) re
08-31-10
Word count: 143
( Living / Relationships )
Buffalo, NY, USA. Researchers have found compelling evidence that our best and worst experiences in life are likely to involve interaction with other people and the fulfillment of an urge for social connection, contrary to the implications of previ
08-30-10
Word count: 155
( SciMed / Healthcare )
Geneva, Switzerland. A major humanitarian organization has performed close to 20,000 surgical procedures in resource-limited settings between 2001 and 2008 with an operative death rate of only 0.2 percent.
Of the 230 million major surgical proce
08-30-10
Word count: 138
( SciMed / Genetics & Genome )
Baltimore, MD, USA. Scientists have produced the very first epigenetic landscape map for tissue differentiation, based on the occurrence of a common chemical change called methylation, often is associated with turning off genes. It takes place whil
08-27-10
Word count: 177
( SciMed / Biology )
Houston, TX, USA. The most robust statistical examination to date of our species' genetic links to mitochondrial Eve — the maternal ancestor of all living humans — confirms that she lived about 200,000 years ago.
The study was based on a side-
08-26-10
Word count: 148
( Nation / Politics )
Provo, UT, USA. A down economy usually spells trouble for incumbents, but a new study shows that six Republicans up for re-election this year caught a break when John McCain lost the last presidential election.
The analysis found that some voters
08-19-10
Word count: 171
( Nation / Politics )
College Station, TX, USA. A longitudinal study in the Social Science Quarterly analyzes suicide rates at a state level from 1981-2005 and determines that presidential election outcomes directly influence suicide rates among voters. This article is
08-19-10
Word count: 170
( Nation / Workplace )
Cincinnati, OH, USA. New research examines how night shifts and rotating work schedules are affecting the state of the marital union.
Taking care of business is becoming an ever-growing, 24/7 challenge for the American worker. “Although much res
08-18-10
Word count: 116
( Living / Relationships )
Atlanta, GA, USA. A study by sociologists from Indiana University found that manipulating terminology and efforts to frame an issue toward a specific outcome — often effective in influencing public opinion — have no effect on public opinion con
08-17-10
Word count: 154
( SciMed / Genetics & Genome )
Baltimore, MD, USA. Researchers scanned the human genome and expanded the catalog of reasons people have such a variety of physical traits and disease risks.
A team from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine identified a near complete ca
08-16-10
Word count: 124
( SciMed / Neuroscience )
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK. A consortium of universities and robotic companies has developed robots that form attachments, interact and express emotion through bodily expression as they interact with their human caregivers. The Feelix Growing proj
08-16-10
Word count: 175
( Living / Relationships )
Edmonton, AB, USA. Results from a study on oral sex indicate there is little doubt that oral sex is becoming a more common activity for young women. Study results show the act has become a fundamental part of what study author Brea Malacad calls th
08-14-10
Word count: 203
( SciMed / Neuroscience )
San Diego, CA, USA. Women and girls in the United States consider and engage in suicidal behavior more often than men and boys, but die of suicide at lower rate — a gender paradox enabled by U.S. cultural norms of gender and suicidal behavior, ac
08-13-10
Word count: 171
( SciMed / Neuroscience )
Toronto, ON, Canada. Aggression. Over-eating. Inability to focus. Difficulty making rational decisions. New research shows prejudice has a lasting negative impact on those who experience it.
"Past studies have shown that people perform poorly
08-12-10
Word count: 121
( SciMed / Genetics & Genome )
Los Angeles, CA, USA. In one of the first efforts of its kind, UCLA researchers have taken mammalian genome maps, including human maps, one step further by showing not just the sequence (or order) in which genes fall in the genome but which genes a
08-11-10
Word count: 156
( SciMed / Neuroscience )
Ithaca, NY, USA. Emotions, particularly those provoked by negative events, can cause distorted, inaccurate memories, but less often in children than in adults, according to new research that contradicts prevailing legal and psychological thinking.
08-10-10
Word count: 138
( SciMed / Biology )
Chicago, IL, USA. Scientists and fertility doctors have tried for a long time to understand what makes a good egg that will produce a healthy embryo. It is a critical question for fertility doctors deciding which eggs when isolated from a woman wil
08-10-10
Word count: 169
( SciMed / Biology )
Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Within 24 hours of culturing adult human stem cells on a new type of matrix, researchers were able to make predictions about how the cells would differentiate, or what type of tissue they would become.
Differentiation is the pr
08-09-10
Word count: 180
( SciMed / Horizons )
Boston, MA, USA. Catherine E. Snow says that with a little guidance, educators can help students learn to read and understand the complex language of science texts. In a new article that appears in the journal Science, she makes the case that stude
08-09-10
Word count: 163
( SciMed / Horizons )
Buffalo, NY, USA. Scientists have developed a biophotonic imaging approach capable of monitoring in real-time the transformations that cellular macromolecules undergo during programmed cell death (apoptosis).
Between 50-70 billion cells die each d
08-07-10
Word count: 148
( Nation / Politics )
Lincoln, NE, USA. When a county's residents are carved into separate districts simply to maintain that numerical parity, many end up struggling at the ballot box, a new study finds.
The age-old practice of dividing congressional districts evenly b
08-07-10
Word count: 183
( Living / Relationships )
Rochester, NY, USA. What could be as alluring as a lady in red? A gentleman in red, finds a multicultural study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Simply wearing the color red or being bordered by the rosy hue makes a ma
08-06-10
Word count: 150
( Living / Relationships )
New Brunswick, NJ, USA. The Disco era anthem, Macho Man, blared through dance club speakers and into America's consciousness, but does the message still sing true for the 2lst century male?
Does he have to be a macho man?
Are there penalties for
08-05-10
Word count: 125
( Living / Health & Fitness )
Camden, NJ, USA. Teenage years have long been linked with a heightened concern with appearance. Some reality TV shows take full advantage and tout happiness as just a nip/tuck away. A psychologist finds that teens fond of these kinds of programs ar
08-03-10
Word count: 164
( SciMed / Horizons )
Cambridge, UK. Over thirty-two years ago, the world's first baby was born after in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
However, the work that led to the birth of Louise Brown on 25 July 1978 had to be privately funded after the UK's Medical Research Counci
08-02-10
Word count: 130
( SciMed / Genetics & Genome )
Princeton, NJ, USA. Over millions of years, retroviruses insert genetic material into the host genome as part of replication, leaving behind bits of their genetic material in vertebrate genomes. A research team now finds that human and other verteb
07-31-10
Word count: 142
( SciMed / Neuroscience )
Baltimore, MD, USA. Michelangelo appears to have hidden an image of the brainstem and spinal cord in a depiction of God in the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling. These findings by a neurosurgeon and a medical illustrator may explain long controversial and
07-31-10
Word count: 173
( Living / Relationships )
New Philadelphia, OH, USA. Narcissistic heterosexual men target their hostility primarily at heterosexual women, the objects of their desires, while heterosexual men, gay men and lesbian women provoke a softer reaction.
The findings come from a ne
07-30-10
Word count: 128
( Living / Health & Fitness )
Portland, OR, USA. Is it possible that the more frequently you log on, the more weight you can keep off?
The more people used an interactive weight management website, the more weight loss they maintained, according to a study that evaluated an In
07-29-10
Word count: 127
( SciMed / Healthcare )
Boston, MA, USA. What are the risks and rewards involved if patients are invited to review their own medical records?
Technology has placed vast amounts of medical information literally a mouse click away. Yet what often may be central — a doct
07-28-10
Word count: 145
( Nation / Workplace )
Fontainebleau, France. Getting angry might help you get your way if you're negotiating with European Americans, but watch out — in negotiations with East Asians, getting angry may actually hurt your cause.
That's the conclusion of a new study on
07-27-10
Word count: 119
( SciMed / Biology )
Norwich, Norfolk, UK. Plant scientists have provided a new solution to an old debate on why species hybrids can be more vigorous than their parents.
Biologists have long pondered the question of why it is that hybrids situated between different sp
07-26-10
Word count: 132
( SciMed / Healthcare )
Sacramento, CA, USA. A shared decision-making process would assist doctors and parents who are facing the extraordinarily complex, challenging, and very controversial choices presented when infants are born with genetic or anatomical anomalies in s
07-24-10
Word count: 129
( Living / Relationships )
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. People who feel insecure about their attachments to others might be at higher risk for cardiovascular problems than those who feel secure in their relationships, according to a new study.
"This is the first stu
07-24-10
Word count: 169
( SciMed / Genetics & Genome )
Princeton, NJ, VA, USA. New findings from a suggest that repeated instructional regions in DNA contributes to normal development under less-than-ideal growth conditions by making sure that genes are turned on and off at the appropriate times. Found
07-23-10
Word count: 152
( Nation / Politics )
Washington, DC, USA. The Denver Post delivered a serious blow to the Colorado gubernatorial campaign of Republican Scott McInnis last week, breaking news that the former congressman allegedly plagiarized large portions of essays that a foundation p
07-20-10
Word count: 122
( SciMed / Horizons )
Denver, CO, USA. Researchers have found the brains of mice used in laboratories worldwide can be profoundly affected by the type of cage they are kept in, a breakthrough that may require scientists to reevaluate the way they conduct future experime
07-19-10
Word count: 121
( SciMed / Genetics & Genome )
Chicago, IL, USA. A paper in PLoS Genetics describes a sex-specific gene that is is responsible for sperm production. Called Boule, it is so vital that its function has remained unaltered throughout evolution and is found in almost all animals.
In
07-17-10
Word count: 160
( Nation / Workplace )
Raleigh, NC, USA. New research shows that an increase in manual and professional business practices such as outsourcing, hiring temporary workers and focusing on project-based teams is having a detrimental effect on workers and likely poses long-te
07-17-10
Word count: 173
( SciMed / Genetics & Genome )
Melbourne, Victoria, AUS. Scientists have conducted a groundbreaking proof of principle study that screening polar bodies (small cells that are the by-product of egg development) is a reliable method to analyse the chromosomal status of an egg.
Fe
07-16-10
Word count: 166
( SciMed / Neuroscience )
Champaign, IL, USA. Those who know that an unexpected event is likely to occur are no better at noticing other unexpected events — and may be even worse — than those who aren't expecting the unexpected, says a new study.
The new finding is a p
07-16-10
Word count: 131
( SciMed / Biology )
Warsaw, Poland. Scientists figured out how proteins can move so fast inside living cells where the viscosity exceeds that of water by a million times and discovered a new principle of cellular physics in the process.
Viscosity is a standard measur
07-15-10
Word count: 170
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